Liaison’s Annual Data-Inspired Future Scholarship

Zoe Sheill Wins Second Data-Inspired Future Scholarship!

Congratulations to Mercer Island High School senior Zoe Sheill, who is the recipient of Liaison’s second Data-Inspired Future Scholarship. Sheill, a National AP Scholar who scored a perfect 800 on the mathematics portion of the SAT, plans to use her scholarship from Liaison to major in computer science when she enters college next year.

“I’m honored to receive this scholarship from Liaison — it’s perfect for my future field of study,” Sheill said. “Artificial intelligence is changing the world, and data is driving amazing new breakthroughs every day. I’m incredibly excited about the possibilities, and I’m grateful to Liaison for this award, which will help me achieve my academic goals in a data-driven future.”

Although she’s still in high school, Sheill has an impressive list of achievements already. She successfully completed a paid internship at Microsoft, where she created a browser extension that extracts webpage metadata to save research citations. Sheill is currently interning at Pioneer Square Labs in Seattle, where she is working on an augmented reality content management system.

Sheill’s application video emphasizes data’s importance in driving AI breakthroughs, highlighting her work using open source software libraries for deep learning models and a project to automate test question generation using natural language processing.
A talented flutist, Sheill is a member of the Seattle Youth Symphony Orchestra and Principal Flutist in the All Northwest 6-State Band. She performed a concerto for flute with the Seattle Symphony. Sheill is president of Instruments for Change, a nonprofit organization that raises money to purchase instruments for low-income students in the Seattle area. Sheill also founded the Homeless Education and Living Project to raise money and collect goods for people in need.

Antonio Ferris, Our First Data-Inspired Future Scholarship Winner

Antonio is the worthy recipient of Liaison’s first-ever data-inspired future scholarship. He is now putting his scholarship earnings to good use at Stanford University, where he plans to pursue a career in cutting-edge data research to help expand machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) applications into new fields that will solve business and societal challenges.

“It’s a great honor to win this scholarship from Liaison, especially since it’s a perfect match for my field of study,” Ferris said. “One of my personal goals is to pay my own way through college, and this generous scholarship from Liaison Technologies really helps!”

“Our society is built on data, and it’s getting more complex, with data becoming deeply involved in how people live their lives,” he continued. “I’m fascinated by the possibilities to improve society with the ability to better analyze and take action based on new data-inspired insights.”

A National Merit Scholar and National AP Scholar, Ferris, who lives in Mesa, Arizona, already has an impressive list of accomplishments to his name. He developed and released a free smartphone app to help consumers calculate the true cost of credit card purchases and make smarter financial decisions. In 2015, he founded a non-profit that leverages technology to empower anyone to help solve world problems and formed a Science Helps chapter at his school. Ferris is proficient in numerous programming languages and 3D modeling, has participated in the highly selective Barrett Summer Scholars Program for Engineering, Stanford’s Speech and Debate Summer Institute, and completed Stanford’s Machine Learning class through Coursera while still in high school.

Applications Now Being Accepted for Fall Semester Scholarship:
Deadline May 31, 2018

Award: One student will be selected each semester to receive a $5,000 scholarshipApplication deadline for fall semester: May 31 (recipient announced by June 30)Application deadline for spring semester: October 31 (recipient announced by November 30)Submit entry to:scholarship@liaison.com

Are you fascinated by data and the role it plays in today’s (and tomorrow’s) society? Here at Liaison, we encourage our employees, customers, and YOU to ponder the many aspects of our lives and businesses that are impacted by good—or bad—data practices. How can we better leverage data to change industry? How can we best protect data and people’s privacy? What does the data-inspired future hold?

As the amount—and potential—of data continues to dramatically increase, the answers to these questions are sought by leading professionals of every field. So there’s no time like the present to wrap your mind around the many implications of ever-increasing data volume, variety, and velocity, and get a head start on your data-inspired career! That’s the purpose of this scholarship—to encourage and support students as they consider the influential role of data and apply their talents to drive innovation.

Requirements & Rules

Applicant must be a high school senior or college student

Applicant must submit a video entry (see video guidelines below)

Applicant must submit a resume

Scholarship recipient has no obligation to Liaison Technologies

No submission of credit card or Social Security Number information is required to apply

The scholarship winner will receive the funds directly from Liaison. However, these funds must be used to pay for tuition at a qualifying college, university or technical school for continuing education.

To qualify, the school must be located within the United States of America or Canada. Exceptions can be made for international programs. However, this information must be disclosed at the time of the scholarship application.

This scholarship is available to citizens and legal permanent residents of the United States of America and Canada.

The scholarship is available to both undergraduate and graduate school applicants.

How to Apply

Create a 30-60 second video that:

Discusses/explains/demonstrates an important aspect of data in today’s or tomorrow’s society

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